In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... English absolutism is thwarted by the heroic King . Elinor's mortal antagonism to London's Mayoress ( who first appears on stage specifically , it seems , to slight the " proudest Queen that England even knew " by . not recognising her ...
... English absolutism is thwarted by the heroic King . Elinor's mortal antagonism to London's Mayoress ( who first appears on stage specifically , it seems , to slight the " proudest Queen that England even knew " by . not recognising her ...
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... English literature and the dictionaries of the period . Ann Arbor , 1950 . Traversi , Derek . Shakespeare : The Early Comedies . 1960 . Trewin , J. C. Shakespeare on the English Stage , 1900-1964 . Ure , Peter . " Cult and Initiates in ...
... English literature and the dictionaries of the period . Ann Arbor , 1950 . Traversi , Derek . Shakespeare : The Early Comedies . 1960 . Trewin , J. C. Shakespeare on the English Stage , 1900-1964 . Ure , Peter . " Cult and Initiates in ...
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... English . Witches , Midwives and Nurses . A History of Women Healers . 1973 . Emerson , E. H. , ed . English Puritanism from John Hooper to John Milton . Durham , North Carolina , 1968 . Fincham , Francis W. X. " Notes from the ...
... English . Witches , Midwives and Nurses . A History of Women Healers . 1973 . Emerson , E. H. , ed . English Puritanism from John Hooper to John Milton . Durham , North Carolina , 1968 . Fincham , Francis W. X. " Notes from the ...
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